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Four toilets, built in 2013 by the organisation Candice Andisiwe Sehoma founded, are still flushing, although floods of raw sewage flow daily through the streets of Alexandra. (Sean Christie)

Building toilets, fighting TB: Candice Andisiwe Sehoma’s life of activism

From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients

  • Eyaaz
10 min read
Sign outside the offices of an organisation in Mozambique that was defunded by USAid. Photos: Jesse Copelyn

Mozambican children die after US funding cuts: Who bears responsibility?

The least the Trump administration could have done was provide ample warning that it was going to cut aid

  • Eyaaz
10 min read
HIV treatment has, for the first time, been made in Africa.

The Global Fund has just made history – now it must start a revolution

Africa’s first locally made HIV treatment is more than a milestone, it’s a political, economic and moral turning point in the fight for health sovereignty

6 min read
Donald Trump criminalised Cuba’s medical brigade and shot down USAid – but Cuba’s biotechnology industry could step in regarding HIV/Aids.

South African-Cuban link: Trump’s targets can help each other

There is an urgent need to build health sovereignty and sustainability to break dependence on donations

7 min read
At least 66% of recent cases were performed by healthcare professionals, in an attempt to legitimise the practice. (David Harrison)

Report finds female genital mutilation more prevalent than previously thought

At least 66% of recent cases were performed by healthcare professionals, in an attempt to legitimise the practice

  • Eyaaz
4 min read